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paska

Pronunciation: /ˈpɑskɑ/

“paska” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. shit, crap, turd (excrement)
  2. bullshit, crap, shit, nonsense (false or exaggerated statements made to impress and deceive the listener rather than inform)
  3. piece of shit, crap (bad thing, something of poor quality)
  4. synonym of paskiainen (“piece of shit, sense despicable person”)
  5. shit, jack shit (nothing, lack of anything of value) (with -kaan)

adjective

  1. shitty, crappy (bad, sick, or depressed)
  2. crappy, shitty, lousy, tatty (of poor quality)
  3. fucked (broken)

interjection

  1. shit!, fuck!

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *paska (compare Estonian pask), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pućka (compare Northern Sami baika, Erzya пскиземс (pskizems, “to have diarrhea”), Eastern Mari пушкедаш (puškedaš, “to defecate”), Hungarian fos). The development of the initial vowel from Uralic to Finnic appears to have been irregular.

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